Legendary Coach Jose Mourinho back on RT for 2019 UEFA Champions League play-offs

11.02.2019: Beginning March 7, 2019 the legendary football coach Jose Mourinho is set to return to RT for special coverage of the 2019 UEFA Champions League. He will provide predictions and post-game analysis of the high

Beginning March 7, 2019 the legendary football coach Jose Mourinho is set to return to RT for special coverage of the 2019 UEFA Champions League. He will provide predictions and post-game analysis of the highly anticipated football tournament in his biweekly show “On the touchline with José Mourinho”.

“Covering the World Cup for RT was a great experience, and I am excited about the opportunity to continue my collaboration with this fantastic team,” said Mourinho on the start of his new project.

Last summer, José Mourinho joined the RT team for special coverage of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, sharing his expert analysis and predictions for the tournament. This time, he’ll be bringing his expertise to RT’s coverage of the 2019 UEFA Champions League—one of the biggest events in European football. Mourinho has coached two different teams to the coveted UEFA Champions League title, winning the competition with Porto in 2004 and Inter Milan in 2010.

Mourinho's 2018 collaboration with RT generated a media firestorm, with hundreds of outlets from Brazil to India writing about the partnership. His subsequent predictions of the tournament, from the Group Stage all the way to the finals, went viral, generating millions of views. In January 2019, Mourinho’s commentary for RT’s World Cup special coverage earned him a nomination for "Best Sports Anchor" at the New York Festivals. RT’s promo “This is Russia, play with all your soul”, which featured Mourinho speaking Russian, also scored a nod.

One of the most successful football managers of all time, Mourinho has trained top clubs in Spain’s La Liga (Real Madrid), the English Premier League (Chelsea and Manchester United), Italy’s Serie A (Inter Milan) and Portugal’s Primeira Liga (Porto). In 2010 he was honored as the first FIFA World Coach of the Year.

The Portuguese Football Federation named him the Portuguese Coach of the Century, while UEFA named him one of the top 10 greatest coaches since the organization’s founding in 1954. For nearly a decade, from 2003 to 2012, Mourinho won at least one major tournament every calendar year.

Watch “On the touchline with José Mourinho” on RT International starting March 7, 2019.

RT is a global TV news network that broadcasts 24/7 in English, Arabic, Spanish, and French from its studios in Moscow, Washington, DC, London, and Paris.

100 million people in 47 countries watch RT channels every week; 45 million watch RT daily (Ipsos). It is the most watched TV news network on YouTube with more than 8 billion views. RT is the winner of the Monte Carlo TV Festival Award for best 24-hr broadcast, and the only Russian TV channel to be a six-time Emmy finalist for news programming.

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